Kaitlyn Cothurst

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In the article NIH finally makes good with Henrietta Lacks family and its about time,
ethicist says. Art Caplan the person who wrote the article says It took more than 60 years, but
ethics has finally caught up to a particularly fast-moving area of science to show how long it
took for them to do something. Caplan also state
The news of the day is that the analysis of the genetic makeup of HeLa cells, the most
use in all of biomedical research, has been completed. But the real news here is that
medicine and science have finally done right by the person from whom those cells were
taken- Henrietta Lacks.
Meaning they have faindy did the right thing. That the NIH did the ethics right thing.